NaviGadget

modbook has GPS

Mar 5, 2008 gps navigation

Modbook from Axiotron has been around for a while but we just found out that the latest Modbook also comes with an embedded GPS receiver.

In case you haven’t heard yet the Modbook is a tablet Mac with a touch screen. It is mostly designed for the artist, or other fancy professional with a price tag of almost $2300.

Axiotron Modbook run on Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard and uses a 2.1GHz processor. It has 1GB of memory, ethernet, USB, FireWire, Bluetooth and AirPort.

The Modbook also offers iSight camera, optical drive and of course the GPS receiver from SiRF which makes Navigadget very happy.

The ModBook comes with GPSUtility which is a small tool that can show the data stream being generated by the GPS and even a diagram showing the location of satellites and their actual signal strengths.

Once the ModBook gets a position fix it can also show a compass bar at the top of the window which displays heading as you move, speed, latitude, and longitude.

We don’t think the ModBook comes with an actual navigation software but we have confirmed that RouteBuddy does the job pretty well or optionally you can try this search on versiontracker.